-- The government has shut all doors on talks with the
Taliban and militancy will be uprooted from South Waziristan at
all costs, a senior official told a grand jirga of the Mehsud
tribes on Wednesday.

-- A furious mob robbed and later burnt houses of five
Christian families in Narang Mandi in central Punjab province
in which copies of bible were also allegedly burnt.

THE NATION

-- The United States is validating claims of $2.1 billion
submitted by Pakistan for year 2009 under Coalition Support
Fund and assured to release the funds at the earliest.
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